Have you found a rogue line of rm(list=ls()) in your R scripts? Then we have a terrific update to a package to find those environment issues and much more.…

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The newest linter on the R block gains a bold new feature in version 0.6.0, and a new package documentation framework altdown enters the world.  Episode…

A collection of tips to ensure reproducibility for R-based clinical submissions, a modern architecture lands in R-Universe, and going beyond the built-in…

Orchestrating multiple package quality checking frameworks all within a single R package, and how learning in the world of AI has fundamentally shifted…

The value of community and sustainability in full view at UserR 2026, a new tool ready to equip reproducibility and more for command-line utilities built…

The first wave of 2026 R Consortium technical grants has arrived, how the new ggchord2 can round out your next process visualizations, and a clever take on…

An exciting new way to search and discover R packages wrapping novel technology, how the new checktor package finds the key issues standard checks will…

A set of principles to enhance testing APIs created inside R, and the engine behind automatic reloading of rendered Shiny apps becomes available for new…

The R Core team receives a prestigious award in the world of Statistics, a month-long recognition of the rOpenSci package maintainers, and a collection of…

A friendly reminder on checking customization when upgrading R, how refactoring may not be so tedious when using the Jarl utility, and honest takes on…

R is capable of many analyes in the world of data science, but can it build a computer? Also a massive usability feature landing in the latest bslib to…

The power of choice is in full effect! How you can leverage GitLab to publish your next Quarto document online, how to bring key R functional paradigms to…

How Hardening Our Security Posture Has Allowed Us to Move Faster with Agentic AI

If Shiny wasn't awesome enough, a new toolkit is bringing the awesome to new heights! Plus a handful of ggplot2 functions that can immediate impact common…

How the new logrittr package gives you a peek behind the tidy pipelines of dplyr, and a fascinating glimpse into the universe of seeds going far beyond a…

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Choice is good, but sometimes you may want a little help! Our first two highlights showcase approaches you can take to inform your next LLM for analyses…

A glimpse into the R Consortium Submissions Working Group's recent successes and future work, and a new way to view those nested lists from a familiar face…

nanonext 1.8.0 adds a low-level streaming HTTP/WebSocket server to R's web infrastructure, with TLS support, new async primitives, and redesigned documentation.

A prominent leader at the intersection of data science and data engineering across multiple languages shares her insights, how a recent Git workshop…

The way LLMs can be a little stubborn when interpreting data visualizations, bringing new meaning to digging for your data and learning along the way, and…

The default settings for chart software are not guaranteed to be accessible, and often need to be adapted for your own chart. In this blog post, we’ll transform a line chart to make it more accessible...

The inside story of how Claude Code with the proper scope provided a massive boost to drafting hundreds of pull requests, and debunking the myth on…

It's a new year of R Weekly Highlights! In this episode we learn of the positive intellectual diversity impacting R and Python communities, a great…

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How the recent frontier LLM model releases compare for successfully generating R code, our take on the new Test Set data science podcast, and a surprising…